Beekeeping involves maintaining honey bee colonies, usually in hives, and provides several products including honey, beeswax, pollination, queen bees, and packaged bees. A typical hive contains around 50,000 female worker bees, hundreds of drones, one queen bee, and is managed by a beekeeper. There are two main types of hives - fixed comb hives where the combs cannot be removed without damage, and movable frame hives like the popular Langstroth hive where frames can be easily manipulated. Diseases that affect adult honey bees include fungi, bacteria, protozoa, viruses, parasites, and poisons. India produces around 60,000 metric tons of natural honey annually, exporting over 26

1. Beekeeping /
Apiculture
By :
BIPIN KUMAR
MBA-1st
SEMESTER
BHU FMS

2. Background: what is beekeeping?
Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin: apis "bee") is
the maintenance of honey bee colonies,
commonly in hives, by humans.
Five products:
• Honey
• Beeswax
• Pollination
• Queen bees
• Packaged bees

3. A hive: “the birds and the
bees”?
• 50,000 female workers
• Hundreds of drones
• 1 queen
• And a beekeeper
http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb/act3.html

4. Beekeeping Hives
.Fixed comb hives-A fixed comb hive is a hive in which
the combs cannot be removed or manipulated for
management or harvesting without permanently
damaging the comb.
•Modern beekeeping
•Movable frame hives-In the United States, the
Langstroth hive is commonly used. The Langstroth was
the first successful top-opened hive with movable
frames, and other designs of hive have been based
on it.

5. Diseases
 The common agents of disease that affect adult
honey bees include fungi, bacteria, protozoa,
viruses, parasites, and poisons.
http://momomax.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/honey-stop-fucking-with-the-environment/

6. History of beekeeping: evolution
• Bees’ ancestors evolved 207 to
220 million years ago
• Now: 22,000 species of bees
• Indian species-
• Apis indica
• Apis dorsata
• Apis florea

7. Honey Production Today: India
• India roughly produced 60000 metric tones (MT) of
natural honey. Around 26, 089.03 MT was exported
to 50 countries in 2013-2014
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23385633@N03/2803270650/in/set-72157606685957698/

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